IFIP TC6 Open Digital Library

24. WiOpt 2026: Columbus OH, USA

24th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks, WiOpt 2026, Columbus OH, USA, June 3-6, 2026

Falko Dressler, I-Hong Hou, Bo Ji

IFIP Open Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, ISBN: 978-3-903176-80-5



Contents

Session 1A: Bandits and Online Learning

Age-Optimal Best Arm Identification

Mengqiu Zhou, Le Yang, Vincent Y. F. Tan, Meng Zhang

 

Probe-then-Commit Multi-Objective Bandits: Theoretical Benefits of Limited Multi-Arm Feedback

Ming Shi

 

Fair Online Learning for Restless Bandits

Tasmeen Zaman Ornee, Arnob Ghosh, Ananthram Swami, Ness B. Shroff

 

An LP-based Sampling Policy for Multi-Armed Bandits with Side-Observations and Stochastic Availability

Ashutosh Soni, Peizhong Ju, Atilla Eryilmaz, Ness B. Shroff

 

Session 1B: Age of Information

Using Age of Information for Throughput Optimal Spectrum Sharing

Hongjae Nam, Vishrant Tripathi, David Love

 

Version AoI Optimization under Power and General Distortion Constraints in Uplink NOMA

Gangadhar Karevvanavar, Rajshekhar Vishweshwar Bhat, Nikolaos Pappas

 

Beyond Freshness and Semantics: A Coupon-Collector Framework for Effective Status Updates

Youssef Ahmed, Arnob Ghosh, Chih-Chun Wang, Ness B. Shroff

 

Age of Estimates: When to Submit Jobs to a Markov Machine to Maximize Revenue (Invited paper)

Sahan Liyanaarachchi, Sennur Ulukus

 

Session 1C: Emerging Topics: Quantum, Haptic Communication, and ISAC

ISACSoil: Multi-Layer Soil Moisture Sensing with LoRa Cross-Soil Communication

Yawen Wang, Yimeng Liu, Jingkai Lin, Yidong Ren, Younsuk Dong, Tianxing Li

 

Distributed Quantum Error Correction: Advancements and Future Research Directions (Invited paper)

Shahram Babaie, Sean Grzenda, Chunming Qiao

 

On the Analysis of a Quantum MDP Algorithm for Optimizing the Entanglement Throughput of Quantum Switches (Invited paper)

Bin Luo, John Chi Shing Lui

 

Predictive Hybrid Resource Scheduling for Haptic Traffic with Diffusion-Based Offline Reinforcement

Yu Yeh, Georgios Kokkinis, Qi Zhang, Salah Eddine Elayoubi, Vineeth S Varma

 

Session 1D: Federated Learning

When the Server Steps In: Calibrated Updates for Fair Federated Learning

Tianrun Yu, Kaixiang Zhao, Cheng Zhang, Anjun Gao, Yueyang Quan, Zhuqing Liu, Minghong Fang

 

FedHusky: Accelerating Hybrid Federated Learning with Client Hopping

Fangtong Zhou, Yi Shi, Wenjing Lou, Thomas Hou

 

Privacy-Accuracy Trade-offs in Federated Learning with Data and Privacy Heterogeneity

Po-Yen Chen, Nick Farid, Mingyan Liu

 

Communication-Efficient State Synchronization for Stable Second-Order Federated Learning

Ahmed Hany, Karim A. Banawan, Nourhan Sakr, Karim G. Seddik, Tamer ElBatt

 

Session 2A: Edge Computing and Offloading

Delay Optimization in a Simple Offloading System

Darin Jeff, Eytan Modiano

 

PROTEUS: Proactive Latency-Constrained Enhanced Ubiquitous Surveillance

Gaurav Singh, Arnob Ghosh, Debashri Roy

 

HOSL: Hybrid-Order Split Learning for Memory-Constrained Edge Training

Aakriti Lnu, Zhe Li, Dandan Liang, Chao Huang, Rui Li, Haibo Yang

 

Structure-Informed Online Bandwidth Allocation for Heterogeneous Real-Time Synchronized Streaming

Xuan Wang, Ying Sun, Atilla Eryilmaz, Bin Li

 

Session 2B: Resource Allocation and Network Optimization

Learning Utility over Black-Box Underlays with Delayed Feedback

Md Mahfujul Kadir, Ning Lu

 

Utility Maximization in Wireless Backhaul Networks with Service Guarantees

Nicholas W Jones, Eytan Modiano

 

Planning for Reliable Multi-Technology Networks Under QoS Guarantees

Maria Samonaki, Nicolai Kröger, Fidan Mehmeti, Wolfgang Kellerer, Carmen Mas-Machuca

 

Bi-Level Online Provisioning and Scheduling with Switching Costs and Cross-Level Constraints

Jialei Liu, Can Emre Koksal, Ming Shi

 

Session 2C: 5G/6G and Beyond

Priority-Aware Encoding for Bandwidth-Efficient Real-Time Classification in 5G Networks

Chengzhang Li, Peizhong Ju, Atilla Eryilmaz, Ness B. Shroff

 

Interference Prediction and Beam Alignment in 5G Indoor mmWave UDNs

Sihyun Choi, Sungbo Eo, Changhee Joo, Saewoong Bahk

 

SpikeCSI: CSI Feedback Compression for MIMO Wireless Systems using Spiking Neural Networks (Invited paper)

Eduardo David Lotto, Eleonora Cicciarella, Francesco Restuccia, Francesca Meneghello

 

Mobile Distributed MIMO for 6G: Learning Meets Coherent Joint Transmission (Invited paper)

Usama Saeed, Ramin Safavinejad, Yibin Liang, Karim Said, Daniel Jakubisin, Lingjia Liu

 

Session 2D: Semantic and Efficient Communications

Adaptive Unicast-Multicast Strategies for Over-the-Air Updates in Multi-Receiver Wi-Fi Networks

Fatemeh Jafari, Valentin Thomas Haider, Luca Parolini, Christian Wimmer, Fidan Mehmeti, Wolfgang Kellerer

 

TopoCode-PCD: Topological Semantic Error Detection and Correction for Geometric Point Cloud Communication

Rohit Bhusal, Hongzhi Guo, Mehmet Can Vuran

 

Joint Bit-Partitioning and Modulation Design for Digital AirComp

Xiaojing Yan, Carlo Fischione

 

Measure Once, Train Often: Scaling Waveform Classifiers with Channel-Augmented Data (Invited paper)

Sage Trudeau, Spencer Chun, Brandon Nguyen, Kaushik Chowdhury

 

Session 3A: Network Control and Scheduling

Learning and Rate-Adaptive Scheduling in Wireless Networks with Unknown Channel Statistics (Invited paper)

Saptarshi Mandal, R. Srikant

 

Index Policies for RMAB Problems with Varying Capacity and Global State Dependency (Invited paper)

Sixiang Zhou, Xiaojun Lin, Lei Jiao

 

Optimal Sampling and Actuation Policies of a Markov Source over a Wireless Channel (Invited paper)

Mehrdad Salimnejad, Anthony Ephremides, Marios Kountouris, Nikolaos Pappas

 

Monitoring State Transitions in Markovian Systems with Sampling Cost

Kumar Saurav, Ness B. Shroff, Yingbin Liang

 

Session 3B: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface

Cooperative Deep Reinforcement Learning for Fair RIS Allocation

Martin Mark Zan, Stefan Schwarz

 

Tractable Analysis of Realistic Gains from Intelligent Metasurfaces

Santos Bustos Julian Alfonso, Jean-Marc Kelif, Lynda Zitoune, Eitan Altman

 

Secure and Efficient Transmission in Hybrid Sparse RIS-Enabled Internet of Robotic Things

Gaurav Singh, Sravani Kurma, Debashri Roy, Vini Chaudhary

 

Optimal RIS Placement in Multi-User MISO Systems with User Randomness

Abhishek Rajasekaran, Mehdi Karbalayghareh, Xiaoyan Ma, David Love, Christopher G. Brinton

 

Session 3C: Network Economics and Incentives

Assuring Service Level Agreements in Open Radio Access Networks: An End-to-End System Design

Yufan He, Tuan Van Ngo, Mao Van Ngo, Binbin Chen, Tony Q. S. Quek, Howard Yang

 

Contract Design for Dynamic Spectrum and Infrastructure Sharing under Asymmetric Risk Information

Zongyun Xie, Randall A Berry

 

Internet of Agentic AI: Incentive-Compatible Distributed Teaming and Workflow

Ya-Ting Yang, Quanyan Zhu

 

Joint Network-and-Server Congestion in Multi-Source Traffic Allocation: A Convex Formulation and Price-Based Decentralization

Tamoghna Sarkar, Bhaskar Krishnamachari

 

Session 3D: Learning for Wireless Systems

Cells on Autopilot: Adaptive Cell (Re)Selection via Reinforcement Learning

Marvin Illian, Ramin Khalili, Antonio A. de A. Rocha, Lin Wang

 

Physics-Informed Parametric Bandits for Beam Alignment in mmWave Communications

Hao Qin, Thang Nhat Duong, Ming F. Li, Chicheng Zhang

 

AWaRe-SAC: Proactive Slice Admission Control under Weather-Induced Capacity Uncertainty

Dror Jacoby, Yanzhi Li, Shuyue Yu, Nicola Di Cicco, Hagit Messer, Gil Zussman, Igor Kadota

 

Learning Wireless Interference Patterns: Decoupled GNN for Throughput Prediction in Heterogeneous Multi-Hop p-CSMA Networks

Faezeh Dehghan Tarzjani, Bhaskar Krishnamachari